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Originally Posted by 12clicks
amongst the intelligent we know that when you break the law, you're arrested. When you're arrested, you don't get to take your kids to jail. The unintelligent imagine something else.
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This is where the problem is.
When I get pulled over and get a speeding ticket, I am not thrown in jail and my child is not taken away from me.
Until just recently, when someone crossed the border illegally they are processed and quickly sent home. On April 6th Sessions adopted a new policy to prosecute "all such violations to the full extent possible". Suddenly instead of sending people home we are holding them an prosecuting them, which means holding them in jail.... It didn't occur to anyone at the Justice Department that we would see a huge increase in people being held and prosecuted, and that some of their people would have children that would need to be held in a different facility. How they couldn't see this would happen in advance is mind blowing.
If they want to prosecute everyone who comes across the border, that's fine. I can even get on board with it. However, they need to plan a bit ahead on this and need a better plan to handle children.